slimming

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Adjective

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slimming (comparative more slimming, superlative most slimming)

  1. Making a person seem or become slimmer.
    She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming.
    He's trying to lose weight by drinking slimming tea.
    That dress is very slimming on you.

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Verb

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slimming

  1. present participle and gerund of slim

Noun

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slimming (countable and uncountable, plural slimmings)

  1. The process of making or becoming slimmer.
    • 1990, The New Law Journal (volume 139, part 1, page 130)
      We have become accustomed to Thatcherite slimmings of the system — massive ward closures punctuated from time to time by the royal opening of an Aids unit for ten patients, but here is something new.